The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-26
Live Stock.

Altogether there are q, 900 mich COWS in
the United States, and yet with the water
supply the people fail to have their thirst
satisfied. An exchange suggests that we
have fewer distilleries and more COWS.
1t may not be known that sheep left in
the pasture all night with other cattle are
seldom injured by dogs. They will be
friendly with any animal that is kind TO
them, so that the cattle serve as protec-
ton.
The best result from hogs are obtained
by feeding them to the highest limit and
getting greatest weight in the shortest pos
sible time, and as long as the hogs shall be
increasing rapidly in weight they should
be given all they can eat, SO as to get them
into market as soon as possible.
A New Mexico ranchman says: "From
twenty-six black muley bulls put on the
range two years ago only twenty calves
showed up, and a polled angus used in
another herd three years has given only
eight calves" He will use Dsvons in fu-
sITe as combining the most good qualities.
China hogs are used in England to tone
down and improve the native breeds. Toe
Chinese swine have little or no hair, are
short and chunky in the body, with short
legs and rather long snout: The Suffolk
small Essex and small Yorkshire are
quite similar to them as they are OF the
same kin.
The best thoroughbred stock is now in
this country. Formerly Europe, and es-
pecially England supplied US with our choi-
cest animals; but our enterprising stock
men have secured the best specimens to be
found. Our Jerseys yield more butter
than the cows of the Channel islands, our
swine produce more meat at the same age,
and the heaviest fleeces of wool have been
sheared in this country.
The breeds of cows which have for so
many years past been and still are the
most satisfactory for the general purpose
Of the farmer, are the short-horn and its
cognates, the Yorkshire OF England the
Devon. the polled Norfolk and Suffolk,
and the Guernsey also to some extent.
The grades of the above often excel in this
respect, especially when as high as three
fourths or seyen-eighthsbred.
The breeds OF dairy COWS which general
ly excel in the richness of the quality OF
their milk are the Guernsey and the Jer-
sey. Next comes the Devon and the red
polled Norfolk aud Suffolk. The Ayrshires
| and Holsteln- Friesians yield milk of a fair
| quality beautifully, the latter, chiefly on
account of their larger size, much excell-
ing. Indeed, they yield in our country
beyond all precedent known in any other.
The beef cow ought to be OF the best pos.
sible form, round and smooth, and fine in
all her points. The chest should be broad
and deep. with good projection of the
brisket the crop fuller than in a dairy
COW, and the foreFibs particularly well
/ sprung, wide across the lOin and hiBs with
a low let-down of the twist, fiat thighs and
clean limbs; the body thus presenting
the shape, as nearly as possible, of right
aDgled pardllelogFam. She should have 8
moderatesiz Udder and teats, the latter
set square. If she gives milk enough Il
bring up her calf this is all that ought Il
be required of her. The breeds of Cattle
most sought after for beef are the Kyloe
the Aberdeen Angus and the Galloway
the shoTthorn, the Hereford, tho Devon
a. d the Sussex.